Reuters: As a New York legal window opens, child sex abuse victims sue Catholic Church, Boy Scouts, Jeffrey Epstein, and others
Scores of people in New York state who were sexually abused as children sued institutions, including the Roman Catholic Church, on Wednesday, the first day a new law temporarily permitted them to file lawsuits over decades-old crimes. According to a court spokesman, 427 lawsuits had been filed in courts by the close of business on Wednesday. RELATED STORY: Washington Post: Boy Scouts failed to stop hundreds of previously unreported sexual predators, a lawsuit alleges The Child Victims Act, the state’s landmark new law, includes a provision that lifts a statute of limitations, for one year, that had prohibited older...
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